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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. Microsoft Windows 3.0). Lessons Learned.

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Why Startups Love The One-Two Of Engaging, Affordable Quiz Marketing

YoungUpstarts

Buzzfeed sees their quizzes shared an average of nearly 2000 times each, helping them to reach more than 580 million people in 2017. The push-pull of entertainment and engagement is a subtle balance, but one which works wonders for audience retention when done right. Furthermore, quizzes are some of the most shared content online.

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Fueling Your Growth With Facebook Groups And Communities

Duct Tape Marketing

22:24] Retention and recruitment have become really hot right now for a lot of organizations – what role can community play? [24:13] So about, this was like around 2000 ish, I think, or something like that. And so retention and recruitment have become, you know, really hot right now for a lot of our organizations.

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Conversion: The Most Important Internet Metric of All (Revisited)

abovethecrowd.com

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” Commerce players have driven 6-10% lifts in average order values, 15%+ improvements in purchase frequency and major improvements in overall customer retention.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. The World will conclude this list for today.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. It all depends on where you’re at. That’s your call.